More than $10,000 raised for Zebulon house fire victims

A family with two young children lost everything to a fire, but they are getting help from family, friends, and complete strangers thanks to a fundraising website that went viral overnight.

On February 11, an electrical fire swept through Allison Stancil's Zebulon home. She, her husband, and their two children all survived, but the same could not be said for their house and all their possessions.

"It's overwhelming, but we've just been taking it one day at a time. We're doing necessities, what we need to have right now," Stancil said.

With the house a total loss, and left starting from scratch, Stancil's sister-in-law wanted to help, and that is when Leslie Pope-Perry got the idea to turn to a site called "Go Fund Me."

"I had a friend on Facebook who is trying to raise money for her husband's mission trip, and I donated to that, it only took a minute or two to donate and I saw how easy it was," Pope-Perry said.